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- M. GIESEL.

CASH REGISTER.

- APPLICATION FILED DEC. 5, 1902.

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UNITED STATES Patented December 1, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

-MARTIN GIESEL, OE COLUMBUS, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE HALLNVOOD CASH REGISTER COMPANY, OF NEW JERSEY.

OE JERSEY OITY, NEYV JERSEY, A CORPORATION CASH-REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 745,595, dated December 1, 1903.

Application filed December 5, 1902. Serial No. 134,054 (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARTIN GIEsEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oolumbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash Registers and Indicators, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in cash-registers; and the object of theinvention [O is to improve and simplify the means for sounding an alarm at each operation of the machine.

The invention consists in the constructions hereinafter described, and pointed out in the i5 claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of a machine with my improvement applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view. Fig. 3 is a detail view.

Like parts are represented by similar lettors of reference in the several views.

In cash-registering machines it is essential that an alarm be sounded at each operation of the machine. Heretofore special means more or less complicated have been employed to accomplish this object. By my improvement I am able to discard a large number of parts and provide a very simple and effective device for sounding an alarm by the gong or 0 bell usually provided for this purpose.

The cash-registering machine to which I have applied my improvement is more fully described and illustrated in the patents to Henry S. Hallwood, Nos. 704,795 and 70%,796,

5 issued July 15, 1902, and I have shown and described in the present application only such of the operating mechanism as is necessary to be used in connection with my improvement, which may be briefly described as fol- 0 lows:

a represents the main frame of the machine, in which is supported the main stationary supporting-shaft a. Pivoted on the shaft a is the main operating-yoke b, which operates 5 in the manner explained in said Hallwood patents. As is fully described in said patents, the main operating-yoke b has an upwardly-projecting arm b, provided with a spring-pressed laterally-movable beveled tripbar b for the purpose of operating the transfer mechanism. The transfer mechanism shown in the drawings is likewise fully described and illustrated in the patents referred to and need not be further described here other than to point out that there are a series of transverse shafts comprised in said mechanism adaptedto be operated upon by the trip-bar of the yoke b and partly oscillated by the same whenever the said yoke b is operated bythe openingand closing ofthe cash-drawer. These shafts are represented by the letters d,

d, (1 and d in the drawings and are journaled in the framework of the machine above the registering wheels. Projecting downwardly from each of the shafts d d,&c.,are projecting pins d", which stand in the path of the trip-bar b and on the other end of each shaft is a coil-spring (1 one end of said spring being connected with the frame of the machine and the other coiled about and connected to the shaft, these springs serving to maintain said shafts in normal position. As the cash drawer opens, the yoke b will drop the trip bar I) on the upper part thereof, move rearwardly, and contact with the projecting pins d, and thus oscillate the respective shafts d d, the, which as soon as the trip-bar passes the respective pins thereon will be immediately returned to their normal positions by their springs. As the drawer closes, the tripbar will by reason of the beveled construction thereof pass the said pins without operating the shafts.

The construction as thus far described is the same as that described in the patents referred to, and it is to this part of the mechan ism that I have applied my improved alarm device. This consists in providing on one of the transfer-mechanisiii-operating shafts d d, &c., a bell-clapper c, and attached to the 2 frame in proximity thereto the gong or hell 6'.

I have shown the clapper connected to the shaft which is first operated upon by the tripbar of the lever Z), which is lettered (Z in the drawings. Bythisconstructionitwillbeseen that as the drawer opens and the trip-bar contacts with the projection on the shaft d the clapper will be drawn away from the gong as the shaft 61 oscillates. As soon as the tripbar has passed the said projecting pin the I00 shaft cl will be immediately returned to normal position by its spring and cause the clapper to strike the gong and sound the alarm.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. In a registering-machiue, a series of registering-Wheels, transfer mechanism for said registering-Wheels, a bell-clapper connected With the transfer mechanism and a hell or gong in proximity thereto, and means for operating simultaneously the transfer mechanism and the hell or gong, substantially as specified.

2. In a registeringmachine, registering mechanism, a gong, actuating devices for said registering mechanism, including an oscillatory shaft having a bellclapper thereon adapted to strike said gong upon the operation of said mechanism.

3. In a registering-machine, registering- Wheels and transfer mechanism including an oscillatory shaft adapted to transmit movement to said Wheels, in combination with a gong and a bell-clapper fixed on said shaft and adapted to strike said gong upon the operation of said shaft, substantially as specified.

4. In a registering-niacinne, the combination with registering-Wheels, actuating devices therefor including an oscillatory shaft and a retracting-spring adapted to return said shaft to normal position, of a gong and a bellclapper fixed on said shaft and adapted to strike said gong upon the operation of said shaft.

5. In a registering-machine, a series of registering-Wheels, transfer mechanism for said registering-Wheels comprising an oscillatory shaft, a cash-drawer, a lever controlled by the movement of said drawer adapted to operate said oscillatory shaft, a gong or hell in proximity to said shaft, and a bell-clappor connected directly to said shaft adapted to sound an alarm on said gong or hell when said shaft is operated, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 21th day of November, A. D. 1902.

MARTIN GIESEL.

lVitnesses:

ALLEN DE VILBIss, Jr, HERMAN L. HEoK. 

